Doesn’t sound like he got clearance from his boss in Austin. The water down theory does not fly when you have ISU, KU, and Baylor. Also, I don’t see FSU or Clemson joining the 12. They have options, and its clear everyone who can us running from Texas’ arrogance. Look at it realistically, the only teams that have not left or tried to leave are teams that are still shocked that they are in a BCS league to start with.

The Big 12 office had the full support of Deloss Dodd’s on this. There never would have been a waiver requested if Dodds didn’t want this. Think Godfather. If the commissioner had acted without
Deloss’s permission he would have been like
Luca Brasi, “sleeping with the fishes.”

]]>By: TxGrownhttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124520
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:14:43 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124520goodfieldnohit says:
” Texas once ran off 15 victories in a row against A&M. Not one of those games was ever played on the road. And A&M did actually have a football field at the time.”
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What are you talking about?
]]>By: 12strikeshttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124511
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:07:07 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124511Waivers… I thought that Notre Dame has the monopoly on that?
]]>By: frughttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124478
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:52:20 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124478@goodfieldnohit

then they drove 4 teams out of the Big Dumpster Fire Conference. All because they wanted a disproportionate share of the television revenue generated in the conference.

Having grown been born and raised in Tulsa, I am the last guy to ever defend UT, but A&M and Nebraska both voted in supported (including voting in favor of) unequal revenue distribution.

]]>By: goodfieldnohithttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124477
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:08:35 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124477Texas University is an easy target. They are the college equivalent of the New England Patriots. They are good, but never willing to just compete on a level playing field.

As mentioned above, they destroyed the SWC. And then they drove 4 teams out of the Big Dumpster Fire Conference. All because they wanted a disproportionate share of the television revenue generated in the conference.

Think about that. They want more money than the rest of the teams in their conference, just because they are Texas. Texas once ran off 15 victories in a row against A&M. Not one of those games was ever played on the road. And A&M did actually have a football field at the time.

I’m glad that my guys packed up their bags and went to the SEC.

And if you want to call it butthurt that A&M went to the SEC, beat Alabama, won a Heisman, took OU out behind the woodshed (who beat Texas 63-18 I think), then so be it.

So long to the orange and the white, indeed.

]]>By: rabbi187http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124472
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:40:13 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124472Funny how all u butt hurt fans see anything about the Big 12 and just bash The University of Texas. Pathetic.
]]>By: normtidehttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124469
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:36:11 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124469Doesn’t sound like he got clearance from his boss in Austin. The water down theory does not fly when you have ISU, KU, and Baylor. Also, I don’t see FSU or Clemson joining the 12. They have options, and its clear everyone who can us running from Texas’ arrogance. Look at it realistically, the only teams that have not left or tried to leave are teams that are still shocked that they are in a BCS league to start with.
]]>By: thefiesty1http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124460
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:22:48 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124460Just add two teams and have a championship game again. Tell DeLost Dodds to go to hell.
]]>By: amosalanzostagghttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124446
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:27:04 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124446FSU has already told the Big 12 no. FSU Administrators and Faculty siad that the Big 12 does not fit there criteria for ACADEMICS.

Clemson and either other ACC school move to the Big 12 at their peril. Why? because if you go to the Big 12, you give the conference your TV rights. You want to leave, Big 12 says fine, your TV rights stay with us.

As long as ND is affiliated with the ACC, the ACC is fine.

Just think about this for a moment. (Substitute Deloss Dodds for the name Big 12 and you’ll see the merit for the thought process, because Deloss controls the Big 12.)

1. The Big 12 has a tie in with the SEC to create a “Rose Bowl” type game between the Big 12 and the SEC.

2, The Big 12 looks to have a cross scheduling tie in with the ACC for access to the Florida region.

3. The Big 12 looks to apply for a waiver for a conference championship game in football.

Who does this directly benefit?

Bueller? Bueller?

Anyone?

Texas. Texas needs more markets to develop the LHN. What better way than to have agreements and bowl tie ins in order to secure the necessary TV markets in order to build your own network.

The ACC doesn’t Texas. The SEC doesn’t need Texas. Texas is wanting to use both conferences to build it’s own brand at their expense.

There were reasons why Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Mssouri and finally Texas A&M left the Big 12. Texas. Those schools left in order to control their own destinies and not have Texas manipulate the conference to what always benefited
Texas first and foremost.

You want facts? Explain why Texas sought B1G admission mere days after Alabama
beat them in the National Championship game? When rebuffed by the B1G, why did Texas look west to the PAC-12 taking OU, OSU and Tech with them and the PAC-12 declined to take those teams? The B1G, the PAC-12, so what does Texas do
next, it tries to gain admission to the ACC and when they’re rebuffed there, they try to solicit FSU and Clemson to join the Big 12.

FSU was right to NOT to join.

Texas uses teams to get what it wants. They destroyed the old SWC, they destroyed
the Big 12 to make it what they want it to be and now that everyone is wise to them conference wise. they want to now use conferences to build the LHN and it will be
at the expense of the other conferences.

Stay away from the University of Texas, all they want is money and prestige for Texas and no one else.

]]>By: drummerhoffhttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124426
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:00:07 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124426Does anyone else think that Bowlsby is make this an issue to create a reason for adding schools to the Big12?

After the NCAA says they will not change the bylaw, the Big12 can poach schools from the ACC under the guise of a need to have a championship game to improve SOS and therefore better ACCESS to the 4 team playoff… it will be portrayed as a matter of survival.

They had better put the Championship game on the Longhorn network so nobody has to watch it.

]]>By: gerryb323http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124421
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:16:00 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124421The NCAA absolutely should NOT grant a waiver. Just last week there was another article about how the Big 12 was happy to stay numerically challenged at 10 teams because that guarantees more money per team.

You can’t then grant them a waiver to play a championship game with only the 10 teams and therefore secure even more money for their teams. The B1G and the PAC both had to add (and therefore dilute the per team earnings, if just momentarily) in order to hold their championships.

You don’t think the PAC would like to subtract Colorado and Utah and STILL be able to hold a championship?

]]>By: shen90http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124420
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:04:47 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124420They can seek a waiver all they like, NCAA will never grant it nor should they. There are rules, get head out ass and follow them.
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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:18:09 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124416Why would the NCAA even consider this?
]]>By: whoisedgyhttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124414
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:03:42 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124414This is the first step in raiding the ACC. The Big 12 requests the waiver. The NCAA says no. The Big 12 then has to add members “to stay competitive”. They pluck FSU and Clemson because they “have no choice”.
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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:37:33 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124410Anything that helps to determine the best 4 teams in the upcoming playoff format is a good thing.
]]>By: boomerdthttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124408
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:01:16 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124408Without raiding another conference this is the best option for the Big12 to stay relevant in football. Despite what DeLoss said months ago – every other major conference has a championship game. Since the Big12 stopped having a championship game they have only had 1 team make it to the BCS each year. PAC-12 and ACC have benefited.

That championship game means a lot, even if just to show a full stadium somewhere else in college football besides SEC country.

If NCAA says no – I see Big12 telling SEC they are raiding teams in their territory. And say goodbye to the ACC – grab Clemson, FSU for starters…

]]>By: blitz4848http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124407
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:56:34 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124407Sounds like the ONLY way Texas will play is if they are the dsfacto home team every yr against the best of the rest in the Big 12.

Texas trying to “control” this conference is the reason why a lot of the above mentioned teams left the Big 12.

A&M left laughing and running to the SEC and now is getting themselves in a position to compete on equal footing with UT for the top recruits in Texas.

DeLoss Dodds & Mack Brown are BOTH dinosaurs and UT is paying the price as their football program has deteriorated over the past few yrs!!!

]]>By: frughttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124406
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:49:15 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124406Unless the NCAA is willing to completely waive the division requirement then I can’t see other conferences going for this. Of course if they do waive the divisional requirement then I suspect that the other conferences will jump at the chance because it makes scheduling considerably easier.
]]>By: kozbeehttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124405
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:48:42 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124405All about the loss in money.
]]>By: mydixienormushttp://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/31/big-12-likely-to-seek-ncaa-waiver-to-hold-title-game/#comment-124404
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:46:32 +0000http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=230945#comment-124404If everybody plays everybody then wouldn’t a championship game be redundant?
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